Changing Kurdistan’s Parliament, Government, must take place by elections, Kurdistan Presidency says:

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: North Iraq Kurdistan Region‘s Presidency has reiterated that any change in the Region’s Parliament and Government, must take place through election ballots, describing the demands by the opposition “Goran (Change)” Group to dissolve the Region’s Parliament and the government, as a “non-constitutional” solution. “The current situation in Kurdistan Region had come through free elections; and any change in the Region must take through elections and the law,” the Kurdistan Presidency said in a statement on Sunday, adding that “the Goran Movement’s demand to change the Region’s Parliament and the government is illegal, thus we won’t allow any party to undermine the Region’s situation and the citizens conditions.” The statement, meanwhile, has called on all Kurdistan Region‘s citizens, along with members and supporters of all political parties and trends, to “be vigilant towards such plans, that aim at undremining the achievements, scored by the bloods of Martyrs,” warning that “the response shall take place most urgently, to face such distructive propaganda.” Kurdistan’s Goran (Change) Movement had issued a statement on Saturday, demanding the “dissolvement of Kurdistan Region‘s government and parliament, along with carrying out new elections in the Region,” pointing out that “everybody is striving to achieve the downfall of dictatorial regimes in the isolated states, that began to face calls for change and protests by masses striving to achieve freedom and justice.” North Iraq‘s Kurdistan Goran (Change) Movement, led by the former leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who rules Kurdistan together with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), who split from PUK, had achived 25 out of 111 Kurdistan Parliament seats in 2009 elections, to form the largest opposition group in the Region, along with scoring 8 out of the Iraqi Federal Parliament’s 325-seats in Iraq‘s nationwide 2010 elections. Noteworthy is that three Arab states – Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt, are witnessing broad protest campaigns, against unemployment, rise of prices, corruption and political isolation, that led to the downfall of the Tunisian regime mid January, the change of the Egyptian cabinet last Friday, along with the continuation of the mass protests, demanding the complete response for their demands. IT / SKH 681